Fellow Texan here. You forgot, "Oh, I notice the car in the lane next to me has their blinker on to come into my lane. I better cancel my plans for the rest of the day to make that impossible." And of course, "I could use a blinker, but what am I, a nerd?" *Throws trash out of the window*
The throwing trash out of the window is so real, it's ridiculous. The whole "don't mess with Texas" phrase originated from an anti-littering campaign in the 80s I think? But ironically I've seen more people toss litter out of their car in Texas than anywhere else
*LITERALLY* I live in Texas and this explains exactly the source of *all* of my road rage. Like I have laid on my horn and flipped people tf off for doing this to me like when I *need* to get over goddamn I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it holy 💩
This is so accurate, especially the riding the bumper thing. People have ridden my bumper when I’m going 20 miles above the speed limit before. And when you go the speed limit, there’s almost a guarantee someone’s going to tailgate you (You usually have to go higher than the speed limit in Texas because everyone else on the road is usually going at least 10 above the speed limit at all times, and it would be unsafe to go slower because then someone is going to crash into you)
Yes! The safety factor here is imperative! I am a safe driver but when my work requires that I travel a lot I just have to go with the flow of traffic which means risking the cops but...not risking my life? It's absolutely crazy.
They need to teach this logic in driving school it drives me crazy when the line is moving 10+ above the speed limit and everyone is trying to dodge one vehicle trying to keep his little pace
texas roads are like school hallways either everyone is going 30 under for no good reason or everyone is going 30 above and still getting stuck behind people
As a Houstonian I can confirm. We've learned enough about driving to know that 99 out of 100 times people will let you get away with shitty driving to avoid you just running into them.
This comment makes me extremely grateful my family never went to Texas together. Not because I don't think we'd have liked it, but because 100 times out of 100 my father and ex-husband are willing to get us all killed to not let 'the other guy' win.
I was once rear-ended so hard while sitting at a stop light that my chest hit the steering wheel-not hard enough to activate air bags but it still hurt. The lady who hit me was speeding and texting while driving. In a school zone. Because I was driving home from high school and she had just picked up her kids…🤦♂️
When you get your licence, do yourself a favor and get a dash cam, it can save you so much headache with insurance down the road. Plus it might help someone if you get footage of them being brake checked and then rear ending someone. American drivers are generally horrible.
Okay as a Texan driver: this is hardly an exaggeration. It’s like a battleground out there. You’ll be going 10 miles over in a 70 (because you are on a HIGHWAY) and there will still be people getting on your ass and moodily changing lanes, speeding up, and getting in front of you. It’s ridiculous 😭 Or hey, when pickups trucks (it’s always pickups, I’m sorry truck drivers) just seem to have the audacity to go dangerously fast, NEVER use their blinker, and be on your ass for going “too slow.” Can you tell I have a particular gripe with truck drivers? 😭 I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and really the only way to get around here is massive highways. If you wanna get anywhere more than 20 miles away, your best bet is the toll roads. God forbid you take the freeways; they are always packed with 18-wheelers. One of my biggest pet peeves about driving in Dallas is that it is so hard to tell when a lane ends or leads to an exit (off a highway). What I mean by this is that highway exit ramps are typically on the right side of the highway (sometimes left in the cities). In order to NOT go off the highway, you need to make sure you aren’t in the exit lane. Makes sense. So you merge into the next available lane. But a mile later, the lane you have merged into has become another exit lane. The process repeats itself ad nauseum. Your best bet is to just drive as far away from the right lanes as possible. But every highway is different-bringing its own set of challenges to the table. You won’t know the layout of the exits until you have driven down the highway once or twice and you have an idea of what to expect. Otherwise, it is incredibly confusing and a little intimidating. To be a driver in Texas is to accept the possibility of death everyday 😭 I mean that seriously
i mean it sincerely when i say the absolute worst part of DFW highways is the "texpress" on/off ramps that are placed BEFORE the free ramps for the very same junction, so you THINK you have to take the first one and then you get a helpful $5 toll bill in the mail
It's not just texas with confusing exits like that. Definitely was the same in the cities around salt lake in utah as well. I like to stick to the right lane when possible, but every right lane kept becoming an exit. I was trying to get from lehi to a town about 30-40 or so minute drive down the freeway. It was my first time driving in utah, I got my license in texas and had never driven in houston yet at this point. I did end up driving in Houston a few months later for my daughter to have a procedure at texas childrens, and I can tell you now: I drove around salt lake city and in downtown sacramento and other various large cities in both utah and california. Houston drivers are the worst I have seen. Both here and in Utah, I've heard people complain that the bad drivers are all californians who have fled and are "ruining" the states they're fleeing to. California drivers were by far the best I dealt with on my trip. I was able to easily merge lanes when needed, I was given space. I didn't see anyone turning left on red lights at busy roads like I saw in Houston outside the galleria. Saw it a few times in Lehi as well for roads that led to freeway ramps. It was pretty great in California.
Being a good driver in Texas sucks because people will punish you for behaving. The amount of times you will get cut off for having a safe following distance is wild.
YES. I remember stopping at a four-way stop because a CHILD on a BICYCLE was crossing the street and getting HONKED AT for not moving fast enough??? Like sir where are you going that's THAT urgent 😭 Also people getting impatient at roundabouts, too. Even though roundabouts are everywhere
My husband was going 5 miles over the speed limit on I-10 and a cop pulled up beside us just long enough to give us a WTF look before speeding off into the sunset.
@@loureedpipesOH MY GOD THE BICYCLE THING HAPPENED TO ME A FEW WEEKS AGO. I was giving the children on bikes in a parking lot a safe distance and the guy behind me honked at me for it. Like???? Go around if you’re THAT desperate to get away from Michael’s.
As a Texan I can confirm the people hitting the barrier thing is a legitimate problem. They’ve had to put up thing to cushion crashes one the highways lol
Fellow Texan here… you forgot “I better wait until the last possible second and then pull out in front of oncoming traffic from a side road cuz I am tired of waiting.” All you described every damn day. My fave are the people who ride your butt like that when there are 1-3 other lanes they could move to and just go around. Grr!!!!😂😂😂😂
Or when they merge into the next lane without ever hitting the blinker and just expect everyone to know that they’re moving over, god forbid if you’re going faster than them.
Oh, I just love it when it turns out that I accidentally drove my invisible car. I'll look behind me and there wont be another car for a mile but they just had to pull out in front of me.
Oh boy. Just like the Texas driver who made a left out into a highway from a road just after the light turned red… I’m in Pennsylvania where I just recently learned I didn’t need to renew my learners permit as an adult in order to get my license, so we have lots of dorks who don’t know the rules. And still, how do y’all survive such chaos in Texas?
I live in New Mexico but I’m close enough to Texas to have to deal with these drivers too. I’m ✨just so glad✨ that their trucks are even bigger now than they used to be 😅
You forgot: “Wow, we’re all going 80 on a 65 highway! Talk about a snails pace!” *driver zooms their sports car between the left and right lane repeatedly and without warning until they’re in front of everybody* “Finally! I can now go 80 but IN FRONT of everyone else like the alpha male I am!”
LMAO FR SPORTS CARS ARE SO COMMON AND THEY HAVE NO RESPECT one time i saw a sports car looking thing driving the wrong way, like going 30 over tthe speed limit and driving on the shoulder lane
It reminds me under a video of someone talking about cars going to slow and blocking others/not going slow it's just the dude behind wants to perish with everybody today, basically, and everybody was complaining about "slow cars"? like I've never been stuck with a car behind because I was too slow? it was always because I was following the speed limit or going above?
@@user-sg4ov7ng4hi was taught from the very moment i started driving that its more safe for everyone to go with the flow of traffic, even if its at higher speeds. theres not much difference in having a collision at 70 vs 85. but if you are going much slower than everyone else and causing a bunch of other people to try and pass you at every second, that, ironically, creates many more dangerous situations for you and others than just going the same speed as everyone else.
Technically, merging for closed lanes is *supposed* to happen at the cones, to minimize the time that multiple lanes of traffic are squished together. The signs are there to tell you to start making space for drivers, and to match pace to prevent the need to suddenly stop. Problem is that people don't know this, and expect everyone to be selfish. So they merge as soon as they can to avoid being stuck at the cones.
@@user-lt1jd1ye3v practically it's safer to merge earlier *because* people do not follow the proper procedure regarding merging for traffic. In theory, it would be safer if everyone opened up spaces for others to merge, and slowed down to allow them to merge. Traffic would be backed up less, and sudden stops would be reduced.
@@ProfessionalBugLover Man, a few months ago, I was stuck in stand-still traffic on the highway with my boyfriend, and some woman decided that she was the most important person on the planet that day and sped past us in the shoulder. There was a Highway Patrol car a few cars behind us, and seeing their lights and sirens pop on as they pulled into the shoulder as well to stop her was beautiful.
being the only good driver in texas is soooo hard. im carrying the entire state on my fuckin back and how do they thank me? by nearly tearing the right side of my car off by trying to collide into me
Can confirm that when I moved states the DMV squinted at me suspiciously when I went to trade in my Texas driver’s license before putting me through more rigorous testing to really hammer the state traffic laws into my skull. I was there for 3 hours. I think my original driving test took 30 minutes in total when I was 16, then I fucked off forever and proceeded to have 5 car accidents by the time I was 21 because my driver’s Ed was me zoning out while listening to Siri explain traffic laws on a PowerPoint and my parents not teaching me shit. I had like. 5 hours of driving practice by the time my test rolled around. _And they still passed me._
As a Texan I went to Arizona on vacation and everyone there was so… reasonable. I felt like a wild coyote that someone dragged into a nice house because they thought it was a dog. Like, they followed the speed limit, their road signs made sense, you didn’t suddenly gain and drop lanes with zero warning, the roads were maintained. Everyone kept three car lengths. Anyways, I don’t want to say I’m a great driver because I’m probably not and I make mistakes every now and then. I am an accidentless driver though, and I know I’m at least good at handling emergencies while driving (car stalling, pedestrian hopping in front of freeway, cars moving lanes without seeing me, accidents ahead, ice, flood, etc.)
Yeah no I moved to New Mexico and the roads suddenly made sense to me. Like they actually sat down and _planned_ out their city roads to be safe and coherent
I’ve only ever lived in Texas and Oklahoma… 3 car lengths is WAY more than we get in either state, idc what town. I hate getting stuck in bumper to bumper traffic or even at a red light because not once, never in my currently 9 year road-driving experience, has any vehicle kept more than a quarter car length behind me when stopped/stop-and-go. I’m like “ok cool but when someone rear ends you, you’re gonna rear end me, and I don’t wanna deal”. Even when you pull up a little bit to make space, the car behind just pulls up to match it and I’m like THAT ROOM IS NOT FOR YOU!!!! STOP IT!!
I felt the same when I went to California on vacation. With added confusion because the native Californians were talking about how horrible people were in traffic.
If a lane is merging into another lane, it is actually better to stay in the lane that is merging till the end, it helps by shortning the length that traffic is gonna be and zipper merging is faster.
Yep, that was the one thing I disagreed with on this video. I've seen people get over into that one lane WAYYY too early, backing up cars into this long line that spans several stoplights!! Like, okay, now we only have a few cars going through each green light because everyone is lined up way too early, and I'm the asshole if I don't join the club.
A zipper merge doesn't mean speed past the whole zipper so you get there first. You still have to wait to get to your merging position and act like a grown-up when you get there. Being cut off and having to accommodate a person who didn't wait their turn is not faster.
Louisiana traffic as well. Nothing more bitter than seeing someone riding your bumper, passing you, then immediately turning into a lot. Basically being an ass to get somewhere 1 minute faster.
Louisiana traffic is when it takes you 30 minutes to go anywhere. To your mailbox, the store up the street, next door, because there's always something going on . And also, "you can't get there from here" and have to drive to a whole other city in order to get on the right path for your destination.
Ain't that the truth! I went to LSU, and the driving was like culture shock for me. 😂 Baton Rouge drivers are on another level, but the whole state's bad, to be honest. One time, I watched a guy behind me get so frustrated that no cars were moving at a green light. It was a two-lane road, but he had a tantrum and drove into the empty oncoming lane to cut us off + crossing a double line, so it was illegal. Except we had all stopped for an ambulance that was turning into our road...and in the oncoming traffic lane. The dummy crashed into the ambulance head-on. I don't know how he didn't hear the sirens. Also, F the Pontchartrain Causeway! 😂
The best part is that 99% of these drivers are pickup trucks, so not only are they unaware of their surroundings, they’re also some of the biggest cars in the road. We love to see it
Actually SUVs are worse to get into a collision with. An SUV is besically a pickup truck with a fully covered back. A chevy Tahoe (an SUV) weighs 5,553 pounds. A Ford F-150 weighs 4,500 pounds.
@@magentawool2556that’s not a fair comparison. A Tahoe is a full size suv that is practically a truck in its own right. It’s not representative of the average suv which is usually mid size SUVs and crossovers. The RAV4 is the best selling SUV and tops out at like 3600lbs. Trucks and full size SUVs also have higher hoods that make it more likely to get into an accident to begin with due to reduced visibility. Both are something the average person simply does not need. Also 4500 is on the low end for an F-150. On the high end they are over 5800 lbs. And the 250s that are very popular with this crowd go over 7600.
My dad is 71 and when driving basically has an “eff it, we ball” kinda attitude. Takes risks, speeds even on back roads, doesn’t use his signal. He got mad when teaching me to drive because I wouldn’t do those things. The DAY BEFORE my drivers test he has me drive him to Home Depot. I’m waiting to merge on a BUSY road on a Saturday and he gets so impatient that he grabs the wheel and PULLS me into oncoming traffic. I manage to barely pull in front of this SUV who lays on the horn. My heart is beating from my chest. I’m too shocked to say much except continue driving to Home Depot, but my dad clocks something that I hadn’t. He tells me to pull into a parking spot at Home Depot and stay in the car. That’s when I realize we’ve been followed for like 3 miles by the SUV he swerved me in front of. He gets out of the passenger side and an angry man and his wife comes out of the SUV. This dude swears and spits at my dad and is yelling about me and is clearly starting to get an aggressive attitude. I’m trying and failing to hold back tears because I’m SIXTEEN and afraid my dad is going to get hurt. For all I know this dude has a gun because Texans be like that. I step out of the car to try to diffuse the situation or find help or something and two things happen one after the other. A man nearby walking past sees the situation and me sobbing from the drivers side of my car and the angry man’s wife notices me for the first time and my age. I suppose she didn’t hear my dad yell at her husband “SHES SIXTEEN!”. The man steps between the aggressive dude and my dad and the wife starts to try to drag her husband back to their car. The confrontation ends and my dad sighs, looks at me, and says “Okay, ready to go in?” I’m like “???!!! WHAT!” We walk in, I say as calmly as my shaking body and voice will allow: “I’m going to the bathroom” and I have a panic attack in a stall and a fellow shopper who came in to actually use the toilet has me come out so she can comfort me. My dad apologized a day later after my mom told him what he did to me was so unfair, especially given my driving experience. He sincerely apologized and it’s water under the bridge, but I still have trauma from that day and am always afraid when a car has been following me for awhile even if I know I’ve done nothing wrong EDIT: to everyone who is righteously angry on my behalf and expressing so through commenting: thank you, I appreciate the genuine kindness and support given through your comments about what was truly a traumatic experience. You are ALL entitled to your feelings and opinions, but I’d like to set some minds at ease and gently encourage you all to consider before responding: my dad is human. He messed up in a massive way and he knows this. I know my father and I hope it settles some hearts and minds to know that he’s not only taken full responsibility, he’s also actively worked to apologize for that situation and encourage me to not listen to him when he’s (and I quote) “being a hard ass”. He’s worked a lot on himself and has changed to be better so as not to put his child in a situation like that again. He’s never again grabbed the wheel and any driving thing I do differently from him is just expressed through opinion and a sigh of acceptance if I do the opposite lol. My dad is a good father who just made a bad mistake that he has worked to rectify. In terms of my trauma, it’s still present at times. But he has told me this: “Drive safely and carefully and don’t be stupid like me. And if at any point you feel you’re being followed, call me and I’ll come out of the house before you get home to make sure that if you are followed you won’t have to confront them. If you’re away from home, rendezvous at a spot that I can meet you at and go into the establishment while I deal with the person. If you’re too far from home use your best judgement and call the authorities if you realize you need it. In the meantime I will fight like hell to get to you.” Not everything is completely black and white! :)
That would not be water under my bridge. He nearly *killed* you and/or others because he was impatient? *Beyond* not his call to make and absolutely violating any and all trust that might have been there.
My dad commited war crimes for the flag in a country us has never gone to and after he got a job at a paper company. Got injured on a peice of machinery wich wrecked his shoulder. the company didnt belive him and sent a PI. The investigator was a darker latino and my father thought the nicaraguans had found him. He drove a stick shift at the time and i was shifting for him because his bum arm, when he noticed we had a tail. Cue him yelling different gears for me to shift into while evading into residential streets. Happend twice and i still evade if a car is behind me too long. I was 9.😅
That is one hell of a rollercoaster. In his defense, that's how you HAVE to drive in Texas to not die. It's one of the reasons I LOVE driving in Texas since my state preferred mode of driving is "confused grandma". I get months of pent up rage out once I hit that Texas border.
As someone who lives in Texas that last one is so accurate. What makes it worse is some people have their brights on IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS! There are literally street lights to light the path!
Why is this so true.Every day I have been in a car since I can remember when EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO HAPPENS .That is why I am scared of highways now!
My dyslexia is acting up again and I miss read ‘Texas’ for ‘taxis’ and was thinking “don’t the taxis want to drive slower so they can get paid more??” Made better since once I reread the top. Also I love the “hope no one’s behind me” only to have a car drive behind them. Perfect timing.
My total road time in Texas is 5 minutes. Fuck that place and everyone living there. I will never buy anything made there, travel there again, anything.
I'm amazed at the similarities between driving in Texas and driving in rural England. Was pulling out of a parking spot earlier and someone tried to pull into it, with me still in it, unable to get out because... they were in the way... and they were honking at... me? Another driver had to instruct him on how to get his midlife crisis on wheels out of the way because the prat couldn't even reverse straight
Yeah, I’ve noticed stuff like this tends to happen when the local or state government doesn’t put much stock into properly planning out their roads with safety in mind or thoroughly educating new drivers (my drivers Ed was literally just Siri reading traffic laws off of a PowerPoint. I’m dead serious). Neither of which Texas does despite being the second biggest state in the nation with 3 of the top ten most populous cities in America, and therefore _definitely_ having the funds to put towards that. Instead they just like. Keep widening the highways so that even more people can fight to get into the one-lane exit all at once (naturally with little warning that the exit was coming up) and creating a dozen overpasses that overlap each other at terrifying heights in attempts to divert traffic. Which doesn’t work because they’re not addressing the core issues at play
@@riverstein7251that is... absolutely terrifying, the state is totally letting you all down. I had to take a year's worth of driving lessons, a theory test on UK driving laws, and separate driving test to get my UK licence, and I still feel under-experienced a year after passing my test- Texas could take a lot of the stress out of being a learner driver (and probably reduce accidents) with a proper curriculum. (And yes, even after all of that, a lot of UK drivers still can't f*cking drive)
@@yasaminwhy8212as another Texan, I mean, I did in fact take a years worth of online modules (mostly cuz I kinda procrastinated til the last month for like half of it), had an online exam (like 12 questions), and then the actual driving test, so I don't feel it was lacking as much as it might seem. My city IS building a 3rd tier of overpasses rn tho
@@summernovah oh that's good! I was kind of confused, like how would anyone have a decent grasp of the laws?? Definitely room to improve but a good start (the UK process is awful- the private companies that run everything are RUBBISH, I'm still waiting for a £20 refund after they messed up my theory test with a faulty PC monitor and that was two YEARS ago)
Omg the exact same thing happened to my mum in a hospital car park, the poor old bloke had to get out of his car and tell the woman "I'm sorry, I can't leave unless you back up" - she huffed and beeped, but you know, it is a hospital, maybe she's being so awful because a loved one has been rushed in? Or she's in major pain and needs attention ASAP? Doesn't excuse the behaviour, but it's understandable. nope. She strides over to the gift shop and starts browsing.😅
Yeah what the other person said. Yes there's lots of big ass trucks that do that to a worse level, but these are behaviors consistent with every type of car. The stereotype here for trucks is that they'd do it worse
@@hahna77I’ve always found it’s worse with the trucks and SUV’s here. Like, don’t get me wrong, everyone on the road in Texas drives like they’ve got a body count, but the bigger cars are somehow worse. It’s like they know they’ll survive if they hit you and don’t care about your odds at all. Absolute lunacy.
"Oh look at that innocent civilian! Time to pretend I'm in Nascar and race with them!" I don't live in Texas but I'm ur next door neighbor New Mexico and I see ppl race all the time
Utah drivers too, with the addition of “oh hey someone is trying to merge/turn into my lane, lemme just stop that behavior right the fuck now” *slams on breaks/gas to make it impossible*
Oh, whenever my sister has someone hanging out in her blind spot (in Utah) she'll just turn her blinker on and, 9 times out of 10, the person will speed up to keep her from merging (which never actually planned to do in the first place) and consequently no longer be in her blind spot.
OMG!!! I lived in TX most of my life and wow, this sums up the drivers beautifully!!! I’ve also never seen road rage like when I lived there - in fact I’ve been run off the road multiple times because I dared to merge into someone’s lane- even totaled a car because a driver didn’t want to be behind anyone else. It was nuts!!
Lol, so accurate, but you forgot "oh this person next to me put on their blinker, better speed up and not let them over in front of me. That'd be a travesty."
Fair share of these types in Ohio too. Heck, when I was 16, I was driving to school and had to call cops because some creep kept getting behind me, passing me and staring right at me, then pulling off just to get behind me again and repeat that process several times. Super uncomfortable.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and this sounds exactly like deivers there. Every time i go back to visit family i ask myself "who in their right mind gives 16 year olds licenses to drive here?!? These people are insane!"way too intense for 16 year olds. Not to mention at 17 i was followed for 5 miles by two guys in a landscaping truck, they were trying to drive next to me, make kissing faces at me, and whistling at me.
Can confirm that when I moved out of Texas I stopped getting into car accidents once or twice every year. Had a lot of near death scenarios on the road that I will not soon forget.
this is so painfully real. and when they rush to the end of the merging lane to shove their way in front of everyone else, they just make the traffic so much worse because then everyone has to hit their brakes.
Recently went on a vacation in California and everyone drives SO WELL. It was shocking how easy it was to merge into traffic. I'm used to Texas and Louisiana drivers so someone actually being considerate was mind boggling.
this was my experience in washington (state) where drivers actually slow down in areas that require it or for yellow lights. driving there was so peaceful and i wasn't at all stressed out.
THIS. People from california say the people are bad drivers, and even people here and in utah for sure say the bad drivers are all from california, but they really aren't. Texas is bad bad. When I was driving around Sacramento and Roseville, I had some of the most polite drivers around me it was ridiculous. But it was just basic road courtesy the people should have to begin with and wasn't actually anything special.
Holy cow, no kidding. I drive in Minneapolis/St Paul often, which is pretty wild , but driving in Texas had me mad sweating. I’ve never seen people drive so aggressively and SO FAST. I hope to never have to drive there again.
Am I crazy or are there a lot more Texas plates lately? And also, everyone is running red lights more with no fks given? Not blaming Texans for that. But I got my license in Texas, moved back to Oklahoma and was the worst driver I knew for awhile. Now I am not and that ain't right
that's what i was just gonna say LOL. some of those retired old people in the rich cities need to have their licenses taken away like they are actually so dangerous to themselves and others lol
@@fossilfightersfanforever7243 bro no fr holy shit My dad is a scary driver as is You know it's BAD when that man is gripping his fuckin seat when his mom, my grandma, is taking turns like a racer (my dad is an ex-racer) LMFAO
People here in New England have the AUDACITY to complain about Massachusetts and New York drivers. They would simply evaporate into stress clouds if they went anywhere near Texas
Tx Traffic Lights Green = go Yellow = go faster Red = we suggest you stop, but if the light was yellow at some point or it's night time and you think no one will catch your license plate, FLOOR IT!
My teacher died from these kinds of Texan drivers. We have a memorial shirt and we get a day of for his birthday every year. He was the kindest teacher I’ve ever known
THANK YOU for this🙏🏼🙏🏼 I moved to Texas about a year ago and I have never related more to a video in my life. I literally make these exact complaints to my husband daily💀😂
As a Texan, can confirm 😫 in Houston, every exit on 610, i10, or 59 is like that episode of family guy where Peter is like “how much signal do I need to use to move over 6 lanes? I’ll use none! Good luck everybody!”😂
As a Texan… this is so accurate lol. Drove out of Texas for my first time last year to Florida and was AMAZED at how easy it was in other states, people would get out of the fast lane if you were coming and going faster, there weren’t near as many lunatics driving irresponsibly, it seems like everyone else was so respectful?! Baffling lol.
“I sure hope no one’s behind me”
*car drives behind you*
the timing on that was perfect. wonder if planned to say that 1 when the car was seen heading that way.
Perfection👌
That was amazingly perfect
I came to the comment to say that exact same thing. Your comment was the first thing I saw
That that comedic timing was ordained by God. 🤣🤣
Fellow Texan here. You forgot, "Oh, I notice the car in the lane next to me has their blinker on to come into my lane. I better cancel my plans for the rest of the day to make that impossible." And of course, "I could use a blinker, but what am I, a nerd?" *Throws trash out of the window*
The throwing trash out of the window is so real, it's ridiculous. The whole "don't mess with Texas" phrase originated from an anti-littering campaign in the 80s I think? But ironically I've seen more people toss litter out of their car in Texas than anywhere else
The blinker is so real
FR I’M SCARED TO BLINKER TOO EARLY BC PEOPLE TAKE IT AS A “GO FASTER” SIGN 😭😭😭
*LITERALLY* I live in Texas and this explains exactly the source of *all* of my road rage. Like I have laid on my horn and flipped people tf off for doing this to me like when I *need* to get over goddamn I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it holy 💩
🤣🤣🤣 texan here - yes
This is so accurate, especially the riding the bumper thing. People have ridden my bumper when I’m going 20 miles above the speed limit before. And when you go the speed limit, there’s almost a guarantee someone’s going to tailgate you
(You usually have to go higher than the speed limit in Texas because everyone else on the road is usually going at least 10 above the speed limit at all times, and it would be unsafe to go slower because then someone is going to crash into you)
Yes! The safety factor here is imperative! I am a safe driver but when my work requires that I travel a lot I just have to go with the flow of traffic which means risking the cops but...not risking my life? It's absolutely crazy.
They need to teach this logic in driving school it drives me crazy when the line is moving 10+ above the speed limit and everyone is trying to dodge one vehicle trying to keep his little pace
You can get a ticket for not maintaining the speed of traffic because it's as dangerous as going above, probably more so depending on the lane.
texas roads are like school hallways either everyone is going 30 under for no good reason or everyone is going 30 above and still getting stuck behind people
@amberball8153 only within a certain amount (I think like 10 or 20mph?)
As a Houstonian I can confirm. We've learned enough about driving to know that 99 out of 100 times people will let you get away with shitty driving to avoid you just running into them.
As a European, I just assume that the remaining 1 time, the other driver will pull a gun.
@@grmpf It's almost like you visited. They've gotten worse since COVID.
This comment makes me extremely grateful my family never went to Texas together. Not because I don't think we'd have liked it, but because 100 times out of 100 my father and ex-husband are willing to get us all killed to not let 'the other guy' win.
“Sir/ma’am, you just rammed into a school bus and injured 14 people,”
“So?”
Classic pfp nice
@@walnut_raisin2621 thanks
Dang, didn't crack my highscore. I'll get it next time.
Sock!
"Sir, you pushed your sister down the stairs and hanged the body with your friend."
"So?"
as a student driver in Texas, I live in constant fear of the death box on wheels.
I was once rear-ended so hard while sitting at a stop light that my chest hit the steering wheel-not hard enough to activate air bags but it still hurt. The lady who hit me was speeding and texting while driving. In a school zone. Because I was driving home from high school and she had just picked up her kids…🤦♂️
@@riverstein7251 This is so irresponsible, I'm scared for her kids!
When you get your licence, do yourself a favor and get a dash cam, it can save you so much headache with insurance down the road. Plus it might help someone if you get footage of them being brake checked and then rear ending someone. American drivers are generally horrible.
Why are ghost fans everywhere
As you should 😔
Remember: a bad driver never misses their exit.
Okay as a Texan driver: this is hardly an exaggeration. It’s like a battleground out there. You’ll be going 10 miles over in a 70 (because you are on a HIGHWAY) and there will still be people getting on your ass and moodily changing lanes, speeding up, and getting in front of you. It’s ridiculous 😭 Or hey, when pickups trucks (it’s always pickups, I’m sorry truck drivers) just seem to have the audacity to go dangerously fast, NEVER use their blinker, and be on your ass for going “too slow.” Can you tell I have a particular gripe with truck drivers? 😭 I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and really the only way to get around here is massive highways. If you wanna get anywhere more than 20 miles away, your best bet is the toll roads. God forbid you take the freeways; they are always packed with 18-wheelers.
One of my biggest pet peeves about driving in Dallas is that it is so hard to tell when a lane ends or leads to an exit (off a highway). What I mean by this is that highway exit ramps are typically on the right side of the highway (sometimes left in the cities). In order to NOT go off the highway, you need to make sure you aren’t in the exit lane. Makes sense. So you merge into the next available lane. But a mile later, the lane you have merged into has become another exit lane. The process repeats itself ad nauseum. Your best bet is to just drive as far away from the right lanes as possible. But every highway is different-bringing its own set of challenges to the table. You won’t know the layout of the exits until you have driven down the highway once or twice and you have an idea of what to expect. Otherwise, it is incredibly confusing and a little intimidating. To be a driver in Texas is to accept the possibility of death everyday 😭 I mean that seriously
...IMO, driving under the speed limit expresses a d e a t h wish.
i mean it sincerely when i say the absolute worst part of DFW highways is the "texpress" on/off ramps that are placed BEFORE the free ramps for the very same junction, so you THINK you have to take the first one and then you get a helpful $5 toll bill in the mail
It's not just texas with confusing exits like that. Definitely was the same in the cities around salt lake in utah as well. I like to stick to the right lane when possible, but every right lane kept becoming an exit. I was trying to get from lehi to a town about 30-40 or so minute drive down the freeway. It was my first time driving in utah, I got my license in texas and had never driven in houston yet at this point. I did end up driving in Houston a few months later for my daughter to have a procedure at texas childrens, and I can tell you now: I drove around salt lake city and in downtown sacramento and other various large cities in both utah and california. Houston drivers are the worst I have seen. Both here and in Utah, I've heard people complain that the bad drivers are all californians who have fled and are "ruining" the states they're fleeing to. California drivers were by far the best I dealt with on my trip. I was able to easily merge lanes when needed, I was given space. I didn't see anyone turning left on red lights at busy roads like I saw in Houston outside the galleria. Saw it a few times in Lehi as well for roads that led to freeway ramps. It was pretty great in California.
Being a good driver in Texas sucks because people will punish you for behaving. The amount of times you will get cut off for having a safe following distance is wild.
In Chicagoland having stopping distance in front of your bumper is a grievous sin.
YES. I remember stopping at a four-way stop because a CHILD on a BICYCLE was crossing the street and getting HONKED AT for not moving fast enough??? Like sir where are you going that's THAT urgent 😭
Also people getting impatient at roundabouts, too. Even though roundabouts are everywhere
Especially sucky when you’re pulling a trailer
My husband was going 5 miles over the speed limit on I-10 and a cop pulled up beside us just long enough to give us a WTF look before speeding off into the sunset.
@@loureedpipesOH MY GOD THE BICYCLE THING HAPPENED TO ME A FEW WEEKS AGO. I was giving the children on bikes in a parking lot a safe distance and the guy behind me honked at me for it. Like???? Go around if you’re THAT desperate to get away from Michael’s.
This isn't parody, it's a documentary.
As a Texan I can confirm the people hitting the barrier thing is a legitimate problem. They’ve had to put up thing to cushion crashes one the highways lol
The car driving behind you at the EXACT best possible moment was a paid actor
Texas drivers are the definition of letting your intrusive thoughts win 💀
As a Texan who doesn’t even know how to drive yet, I can agree
Omg it u
Omg it's you
I subbed to nameless guy bc I kept seeing him, WHAT DO U WANT FRON ME
On the grind again 🎉🎉🎉
Fellow Texan here… you forgot “I better wait until the last possible second and then pull out in front of oncoming traffic from a side road cuz I am tired of waiting.” All you described every damn day. My fave are the people who ride your butt like that when there are 1-3 other lanes they could move to and just go around. Grr!!!!😂😂😂😂
And they pull out in front of a car that has nothing behind it, so if they had waited for just a bit more, it wouldn't've been an issue.
Where I live there's the added twist of not a single car behind me for at least a mile.
Or when they merge into the next lane without ever hitting the blinker and just expect everyone to know that they’re moving over, god forbid if you’re going faster than them.
Oh, I just love it when it turns out that I accidentally drove my invisible car. I'll look behind me and there wont be another car for a mile but they just had to pull out in front of me.
Oh boy. Just like the Texas driver who made a left out into a highway from a road just after the light turned red… I’m in Pennsylvania where I just recently learned I didn’t need to renew my learners permit as an adult in order to get my license, so we have lots of dorks who don’t know the rules. And still, how do y’all survive such chaos in Texas?
I live in New Mexico but I’m close enough to Texas to have to deal with these drivers too. I’m ✨just so glad✨ that their trucks are even bigger now than they used to be 😅
I feel bad saying this on mother's day, but this is how my mom be driving.
You forgot: “Wow, we’re all going 80 on a 65 highway! Talk about a snails pace!” *driver zooms their sports car between the left and right lane repeatedly and without warning until they’re in front of everybody* “Finally! I can now go 80 but IN FRONT of everyone else like the alpha male I am!”
LMAO FR SPORTS CARS ARE SO COMMON AND THEY HAVE NO RESPECT one time i saw a sports car looking thing driving the wrong way, like going 30 over tthe speed limit and driving on the shoulder lane
It reminds me under a video of someone talking about cars going to slow and blocking others/not going slow it's just the dude behind wants to perish with everybody today, basically, and everybody was complaining about "slow cars"?
like I've never been stuck with a car behind because I was too slow? it was always because I was following the speed limit or going above?
@@user-sg4ov7ng4hi was taught from the very moment i started driving that its more safe for everyone to go with the flow of traffic, even if its at higher speeds. theres not much difference in having a collision at 70 vs 85. but if you are going much slower than everyone else and causing a bunch of other people to try and pass you at every second, that, ironically, creates many more dangerous situations for you and others than just going the same speed as everyone else.
Speed Limit: 75
Upcoming Town Speed Limit: 30
Fellow Texan here you forgot the “oh I’m in a large car but I’m never checking my blind spots when I merge without a blinker”
As a subcompact driver, I feel that. It's as if they want to make my car even smaller.
I drive a Buick encore.
I almost got sideswiped by a Cadillac that Refused to even look directly beside them.
I swear my partner and I run into this at least once during every weekend outing.
That's how I got in a car crash.
@@empath9814 Same! Good ol hit and run too 😊
As someone just learning how to drive, and doing it in Texas...yup! And having people think I'm being a jerk on purpose is my nightmare 😅
Technically, merging for closed lanes is *supposed* to happen at the cones, to minimize the time that multiple lanes of traffic are squished together.
The signs are there to tell you to start making space for drivers, and to match pace to prevent the need to suddenly stop.
Problem is that people don't know this, and expect everyone to be selfish. So they merge as soon as they can to avoid being stuck at the cones.
It’s safer to merge earlier
@@user-lt1jd1ye3v practically it's safer to merge earlier *because* people do not follow the proper procedure regarding merging for traffic.
In theory, it would be safer if everyone opened up spaces for others to merge, and slowed down to allow them to merge. Traffic would be backed up less, and sudden stops would be reduced.
Texan here… you forgot “hey what if I use the turning lane as an express lane and by pass rush hour by putting everyone else’s life at risk”
Yup
OR JUST DRIVING ON THE SHOUDLER
@@ProfessionalBugLover I get that in PA, too, and it’s like my biggest pet peeve 😠
@@ProfessionalBugLover Man, a few months ago, I was stuck in stand-still traffic on the highway with my boyfriend, and some woman decided that she was the most important person on the planet that day and sped past us in the shoulder.
There was a Highway Patrol car a few cars behind us, and seeing their lights and sirens pop on as they pulled into the shoulder as well to stop her was beautiful.
In the other direction
I just escaped Texas and the drivers were truly terrible
being the only good driver in texas is soooo hard. im carrying the entire state on my fuckin back and how do they thank me? by nearly tearing the right side of my car off by trying to collide into me
In Minnesota every time I see a license plate from Texas they always drive like this haha, and now it makes sense why 😅
I wish I could leave Texas too I don’t wanna be here
Godspeed soldier o7
Can confirm that when I moved states the DMV squinted at me suspiciously when I went to trade in my Texas driver’s license before putting me through more rigorous testing to really hammer the state traffic laws into my skull. I was there for 3 hours.
I think my original driving test took 30 minutes in total when I was 16, then I fucked off forever and proceeded to have 5 car accidents by the time I was 21 because my driver’s Ed was me zoning out while listening to Siri explain traffic laws on a PowerPoint and my parents not teaching me shit. I had like. 5 hours of driving practice by the time my test rolled around. _And they still passed me._
As a born and raised texan, I approve
I’m a Coloradan and I see way too many terrible drivers from Texas here. Thank you for giving me a look into their minds
You can tell how this was made immediately after experiencing all of that in one drive.
That's "Houston normal." Nice people, but when they put on a car they go nuts.
As a Texan who does not know how to drive yet, I can wholeheartedly agree with this video
Yes 😭
Same here 😢
Same 💀
Same here 💀
@UTTP-142ok account that was made 6 hours ago
No joke I spent several days in Houston and this is the most accurate thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
Texans truly are the Italians of America
Sometimes driving in Houston during rush hour or in a construction zone feels like driving in the thunder dome 😭
I straight up compare the Costco parking lot to mad max for that reason. People not knowing how to drive in a incredulous crowded and small area 😭
Oh God, every time we go to Houston it's fucking terrifying
@@comedicjune4365 tbh i also get super scared when driving to dallas with all the narrow highways and insane ways the exits are made 😭😭😭
For a second, I thought OP's comment said it's like driving in the thunder dome.
@@BlandAmbition … oh shoot thank you, i realized i made a lil typo 🥲
As a Texan I went to Arizona on vacation and everyone there was so… reasonable.
I felt like a wild coyote that someone dragged into a nice house because they thought it was a dog. Like, they followed the speed limit, their road signs made sense, you didn’t suddenly gain and drop lanes with zero warning, the roads were maintained. Everyone kept three car lengths.
Anyways, I don’t want to say I’m a great driver because I’m probably not and I make mistakes every now and then. I am an accidentless driver though, and I know I’m at least good at handling emergencies while driving (car stalling, pedestrian hopping in front of freeway, cars moving lanes without seeing me, accidents ahead, ice, flood, etc.)
Yeah no I moved to New Mexico and the roads suddenly made sense to me. Like they actually sat down and _planned_ out their city roads to be safe and coherent
@riverstein7251 the way you can immediately tell you're in Texas when you leave NM 😅
I’ve only ever lived in Texas and Oklahoma… 3 car lengths is WAY more than we get in either state, idc what town. I hate getting stuck in bumper to bumper traffic or even at a red light because not once, never in my currently 9 year road-driving experience, has any vehicle kept more than a quarter car length behind me when stopped/stop-and-go. I’m like “ok cool but when someone rear ends you, you’re gonna rear end me, and I don’t wanna deal”. Even when you pull up a little bit to make space, the car behind just pulls up to match it and I’m like THAT ROOM IS NOT FOR YOU!!!! STOP IT!!
I felt the same when I went to California on vacation. With added confusion because the native Californians were talking about how horrible people were in traffic.
@@kayenjeeyeah I knew we crossed over when my mom stopped saying "what the HELL are you doing?" Every 5 minutes
I love the way that they said the word “Behind me!”. It brought levels of joy that could not be explained.
If a lane is merging into another lane, it is actually better to stay in the lane that is merging till the end, it helps by shortning the length that traffic is gonna be and zipper merging is faster.
Yep, that was the one thing I disagreed with on this video. I've seen people get over into that one lane WAYYY too early, backing up cars into this long line that spans several stoplights!! Like, okay, now we only have a few cars going through each green light because everyone is lined up way too early, and I'm the asshole if I don't join the club.
A zipper merge doesn't mean speed past the whole zipper so you get there first. You still have to wait to get to your merging position and act like a grown-up when you get there. Being cut off and having to accommodate a person who didn't wait their turn is not faster.
Louisiana traffic as well. Nothing more bitter than seeing someone riding your bumper, passing you, then immediately turning into a lot. Basically being an ass to get somewhere 1 minute faster.
Bro that’s Indiana except it’s always a massive pickup truck. It’s unbelievable the amount of them there are actually
Reminds me of when my fam and I went to Chicago for a family trip
Louisiana traffic is when it takes you 30 minutes to go anywhere. To your mailbox, the store up the street, next door, because there's always something going on . And also, "you can't get there from here" and have to drive to a whole other city in order to get on the right path for your destination.
risk my life every time i drive thru nola, almost died 4 times and it's a gamble just to get into your car 🥰
Ain't that the truth! I went to LSU, and the driving was like culture shock for me. 😂 Baton Rouge drivers are on another level, but the whole state's bad, to be honest.
One time, I watched a guy behind me get so frustrated that no cars were moving at a green light. It was a two-lane road, but he had a tantrum and drove into the empty oncoming lane to cut us off + crossing a double line, so it was illegal. Except we had all stopped for an ambulance that was turning into our road...and in the oncoming traffic lane. The dummy crashed into the ambulance head-on. I don't know how he didn't hear the sirens.
Also, F the Pontchartrain Causeway! 😂
The “I sure hope nobody’s behind me!!” line combined with the random car that passed by is hilarious
As a Texan, this is 100% accurate and one reason why I was terrified to get my driver's license until 29.
Oh gosh the drivers are like that here as well. It’s nice to see someone else noticing this type of craziness from drivers 😂
The best part is that 99% of these drivers are pickup trucks, so not only are they unaware of their surroundings, they’re also some of the biggest cars in the road. We love to see it
My Uncle lives in Texas and I can infact confirm that he has a pickup truck that he drives all the way to California with.
Actually SUVs are worse to get into a collision with. An SUV is besically a pickup truck with a fully covered back. A chevy Tahoe (an SUV) weighs 5,553 pounds. A Ford F-150 weighs 4,500 pounds.
@@magentawool2556 SUVs aren't as high off the ground as a pickup though, so it's way less likely to get into a collision bc the visibility is better
@@magentawool2556that’s not a fair comparison. A Tahoe is a full size suv that is practically a truck in its own right. It’s not representative of the average suv which is usually mid size SUVs and crossovers.
The RAV4 is the best selling SUV and tops out at like 3600lbs.
Trucks and full size SUVs also have higher hoods that make it more likely to get into an accident to begin with due to reduced visibility. Both are something the average person simply does not need.
Also 4500 is on the low end for an F-150. On the high end they are over 5800 lbs.
And the 250s that are very popular with this crowd go over 7600.
@@oldasyouromensdepends on the SUV. Most are built on truck chassis and are just as high. Although truck owners are more likely to lift their truck.
My dad is 71 and when driving basically has an “eff it, we ball” kinda attitude. Takes risks, speeds even on back roads, doesn’t use his signal. He got mad when teaching me to drive because I wouldn’t do those things.
The DAY BEFORE my drivers test he has me drive him to Home Depot. I’m waiting to merge on a BUSY road on a Saturday and he gets so impatient that he grabs the wheel and PULLS me into oncoming traffic. I manage to barely pull in front of this SUV who lays on the horn. My heart is beating from my chest. I’m too shocked to say much except continue driving to Home Depot, but my dad clocks something that I hadn’t. He tells me to pull into a parking spot at Home Depot and stay in the car. That’s when I realize we’ve been followed for like 3 miles by the SUV he swerved me in front of. He gets out of the passenger side and an angry man and his wife comes out of the SUV. This dude swears and spits at my dad and is yelling about me and is clearly starting to get an aggressive attitude. I’m trying and failing to hold back tears because I’m SIXTEEN and afraid my dad is going to get hurt. For all I know this dude has a gun because Texans be like that. I step out of the car to try to diffuse the situation or find help or something and two things happen one after the other. A man nearby walking past sees the situation and me sobbing from the drivers side of my car and the angry man’s wife notices me for the first time and my age. I suppose she didn’t hear my dad yell at her husband “SHES SIXTEEN!”.
The man steps between the aggressive dude and my dad and the wife starts to try to drag her husband back to their car. The confrontation ends and my dad sighs, looks at me, and says “Okay, ready to go in?”
I’m like “???!!! WHAT!”
We walk in, I say as calmly as my shaking body and voice will allow: “I’m going to the bathroom” and I have a panic attack in a stall and a fellow shopper who came in to actually use the toilet has me come out so she can comfort me.
My dad apologized a day later after my mom told him what he did to me was so unfair, especially given my driving experience. He sincerely apologized and it’s water under the bridge, but I still have trauma from that day and am always afraid when a car has been following me for awhile even if I know I’ve done nothing wrong
EDIT: to everyone who is righteously angry on my behalf and expressing so through commenting: thank you, I appreciate the genuine kindness and support given through your comments about what was truly a traumatic experience. You are ALL entitled to your feelings and opinions, but I’d like to set some minds at ease and gently encourage you all to consider before responding: my dad is human. He messed up in a massive way and he knows this. I know my father and I hope it settles some hearts and minds to know that he’s not only taken full responsibility, he’s also actively worked to apologize for that situation and encourage me to not listen to him when he’s (and I quote) “being a hard ass”. He’s worked a lot on himself and has changed to be better so as not to put his child in a situation like that again. He’s never again grabbed the wheel and any driving thing I do differently from him is just expressed through opinion and a sigh of acceptance if I do the opposite lol. My dad is a good father who just made a bad mistake that he has worked to rectify. In terms of my trauma, it’s still present at times. But he has told me this: “Drive safely and carefully and don’t be stupid like me. And if at any point you feel you’re being followed, call me and I’ll come out of the house before you get home to make sure that if you are followed you won’t have to confront them. If you’re away from home, rendezvous at a spot that I can meet you at and go into the establishment while I deal with the person. If you’re too far from home use your best judgement and call the authorities if you realize you need it. In the meantime I will fight like hell to get to you.”
Not everything is completely black and white! :)
Thats horrific!!! Feel hugged 😢 I am so sorry you had to go through that ecperience
I send hugs. That sounds so terrifying, I dunno if I’d ever drive my dad anywhere ever again after that
That would not be water under my bridge. He nearly *killed* you and/or others because he was impatient? *Beyond* not his call to make and absolutely violating any and all trust that might have been there.
My dad commited war crimes for the flag in a country us has never gone to and after he got a job at a paper company. Got injured on a peice of machinery wich wrecked his shoulder. the company didnt belive him and sent a PI. The investigator was a darker latino and my father thought the nicaraguans had found him. He drove a stick shift at the time and i was shifting for him because his bum arm, when he noticed we had a tail. Cue him yelling different gears for me to shift into while evading into residential streets. Happend twice and i still evade if a car is behind me too long. I was 9.😅
That is one hell of a rollercoaster. In his defense, that's how you HAVE to drive in Texas to not die. It's one of the reasons I LOVE driving in Texas since my state preferred mode of driving is "confused grandma". I get months of pent up rage out once I hit that Texas border.
Surviving Texas roads is a baptism of fire when moving there
My mum took me to a Miku concert, she said the traffic was nothing like she’d ever seen before
As someone who lives in Texas that last one is so accurate. What makes it worse is some people have their brights on IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS! There are literally street lights to light the path!
A a texan I confirm that I got my driver's licence from a cereal box
As a former Texan I can also confirm that the DMVs in other states *really* do not like our cereal box driver’s licenses
Uh, where in Texas or the U.S. for that matter, do they spell 'license' like that?
@@eja1258 On the cereal box, didn't you read? ;P
Why is this so true.Every day I have been in a car since I can remember when EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO HAPPENS .That is why I am scared of highways now!
My dyslexia is acting up again and I miss read ‘Texas’ for ‘taxis’ and was thinking “don’t the taxis want to drive slower so they can get paid more??” Made better since once I reread the top.
Also I love the “hope no one’s behind me” only to have a car drive behind them. Perfect timing.
As a Texan, I can confirm this is what our roads are like
Please start taking away people's licenses
This. Some people just shouldn't drive.
I will never forget the time I watched a Texas driver use the road shoulder to pass someone while in a construction zone.
...I mean, yeah, people be like that here.
My total road time in Texas is 5 minutes. Fuck that place and everyone living there. I will never buy anything made there, travel there again, anything.
Uh yeah. Shoulders are turn lanes there... For some reason
@@brookehansen6973
When I owned a jeep, curbs were turn lanes.
@@grmpEqweer ew. Doesn't that mess up your alignment/tires? I'm a regular curb checker, so no real judgement, but damn
As a native Texan that's accurate asf 😂😂😂😂
When driving, it's fast asf and I'm like meh typical 😂😂😂
every day I learn new information as to why Texas sounds like my personal nightmare
I'm amazed at the similarities between driving in Texas and driving in rural England. Was pulling out of a parking spot earlier and someone tried to pull into it, with me still in it, unable to get out because... they were in the way... and they were honking at... me? Another driver had to instruct him on how to get his midlife crisis on wheels out of the way because the prat couldn't even reverse straight
Yeah, I’ve noticed stuff like this tends to happen when the local or state government doesn’t put much stock into properly planning out their roads with safety in mind or thoroughly educating new drivers (my drivers Ed was literally just Siri reading traffic laws off of a PowerPoint. I’m dead serious). Neither of which Texas does despite being the second biggest state in the nation with 3 of the top ten most populous cities in America, and therefore _definitely_ having the funds to put towards that. Instead they just like. Keep widening the highways so that even more people can fight to get into the one-lane exit all at once (naturally with little warning that the exit was coming up) and creating a dozen overpasses that overlap each other at terrifying heights in attempts to divert traffic. Which doesn’t work because they’re not addressing the core issues at play
@@riverstein7251that is... absolutely terrifying, the state is totally letting you all down. I had to take a year's worth of driving lessons, a theory test on UK driving laws, and separate driving test to get my UK licence, and I still feel under-experienced a year after passing my test- Texas could take a lot of the stress out of being a learner driver (and probably reduce accidents) with a proper curriculum.
(And yes, even after all of that, a lot of UK drivers still can't f*cking drive)
@@yasaminwhy8212as another Texan, I mean, I did in fact take a years worth of online modules (mostly cuz I kinda procrastinated til the last month for like half of it), had an online exam (like 12 questions), and then the actual driving test, so I don't feel it was lacking as much as it might seem. My city IS building a 3rd tier of overpasses rn tho
@@summernovah oh that's good! I was kind of confused, like how would anyone have a decent grasp of the laws?? Definitely room to improve but a good start (the UK process is awful- the private companies that run everything are RUBBISH, I'm still waiting for a £20 refund after they messed up my theory test with a faulty PC monitor and that was two YEARS ago)
Omg the exact same thing happened to my mum in a hospital car park, the poor old bloke had to get out of his car and tell the woman "I'm sorry, I can't leave unless you back up" - she huffed and beeped, but you know, it is a hospital, maybe she's being so awful because a loved one has been rushed in? Or she's in major pain and needs attention ASAP? Doesn't excuse the behaviour, but it's understandable.
nope. She strides over to the gift shop and starts browsing.😅
You could just "those guys that compensate with their trucks" we all would've understood
No. no. It's EVERY type of vehicle imaginable here. From your beat-up's to your Audi's.
Yeah what the other person said. Yes there's lots of big ass trucks that do that to a worse level, but these are behaviors consistent with every type of car. The stereotype here for trucks is that they'd do it worse
Oh yeah that makes sense. I'm from midwest & it's usually only tiny men in big trucks.
@@hahna77I’ve always found it’s worse with the trucks and SUV’s here. Like, don’t get me wrong, everyone on the road in Texas drives like they’ve got a body count, but the bigger cars are somehow worse. It’s like they know they’ll survive if they hit you and don’t care about your odds at all. Absolute lunacy.
The big pickups driving so close to my tiny car that I can't see their bumper and I'm doing 70 in the slow lane. Good times, good times.
"Oh look at that innocent civilian! Time to pretend I'm in Nascar and race with them!"
I don't live in Texas but I'm ur next door neighbor New Mexico and I see ppl race all the time
Bro you just described drivers all over the country
Utah drivers too, with the addition of “oh hey someone is trying to merge/turn into my lane, lemme just stop that behavior right the fuck now” *slams on breaks/gas to make it impossible*
That's too accurate
I swear no one in this state understands how a zipper works
Was about to comment this, it's terrifying here.
“Right the fuck now” is amazing lmao not the first time I’ve seen it before but probably the best way I’ve seen it used
Oh, whenever my sister has someone hanging out in her blind spot (in Utah) she'll just turn her blinker on and, 9 times out of 10, the person will speed up to keep her from merging (which never actually planned to do in the first place) and consequently no longer be in her blind spot.
Been living in Texas for most of my life. Can confirm that people drive here like we’re on the run
"What does this lever do? I've had this car for years and I still haven't noticed---oh its my turn signal."
Im visiting Texas for a bit, And i can comfrim this is so accurate-
OMG!!! I lived in TX most of my life and wow, this sums up the drivers beautifully!!! I’ve also never seen road rage like when I lived there - in fact I’ve been run off the road multiple times because I dared to merge into someone’s lane- even totaled a car because a driver didn’t want to be behind anyone else. It was nuts!!
ZIPPER MERGES
We need to start getting into zipper merges
America needs to have "ZIPPER MERGE AHEAD" signs
I stg 75% of drivers have absolutely no idea how to zipper merge, it’s infuriating.
and the sign says "welcome to texas, drive safe" 💀😭
I’m hearing that Texan drivers know how to zipper merge.
Lol, so accurate, but you forgot "oh this person next to me put on their blinker, better speed up and not let them over in front of me. That'd be a travesty."
Straight up Pittsburgh too.
"Never tell the enemy your plans."
A San Antonian here, Loop 1604 is known as the Death Loop for a reason. That reason is Texas drivers.
Fair share of these types in Ohio too. Heck, when I was 16, I was driving to school and had to call cops because some creep kept getting behind me, passing me and staring right at me, then pulling off just to get behind me again and repeat that process several times. Super uncomfortable.
Oh my goodness. You just described New Jersey drivers so well. Glad to see fellow Texan drivers are just as mental.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and this sounds exactly like deivers there. Every time i go back to visit family i ask myself "who in their right mind gives 16 year olds licenses to drive here?!? These people are insane!"way too intense for 16 year olds. Not to mention at 17 i was followed for 5 miles by two guys in a landscaping truck, they were trying to drive next to me, make kissing faces at me, and whistling at me.
Yikes. Time for a phone call.
Can confirm that when I moved out of Texas I stopped getting into car accidents once or twice every year. Had a lot of near death scenarios on the road that I will not soon forget.
Serious advice: if someone is following you try to drive to a police station. At least drive to a convenience store, they all have cameras these days.
I live in IL and the "brights" thing was so relatable. It's so nice being short and at the same height as their big ass trucks lights.
as a texan, this is true very true
this is so painfully real. and when they rush to the end of the merging lane to shove their way in front of everyone else, they just make the traffic so much worse because then everyone has to hit their brakes.
THIS. Yep... you've summed it up perfectly. Drives me absolutely crazy. 😂
DRIVES you crazy? 😏
Recently went on a vacation in California and everyone drives SO WELL. It was shocking how easy it was to merge into traffic. I'm used to Texas and Louisiana drivers so someone actually being considerate was mind boggling.
this was my experience in washington (state) where drivers actually slow down in areas that require it or for yellow lights. driving there was so peaceful and i wasn't at all stressed out.
How bad is it in Texas that you think Californians are good drivers 😭
@@starsoullove1026 Bad.
THIS. People from california say the people are bad drivers, and even people here and in utah for sure say the bad drivers are all from california, but they really aren't. Texas is bad bad. When I was driving around Sacramento and Roseville, I had some of the most polite drivers around me it was ridiculous. But it was just basic road courtesy the people should have to begin with and wasn't actually anything special.
Holy cow, no kidding. I drive in Minneapolis/St Paul often, which is pretty wild , but driving in Texas had me mad sweating. I’ve never seen people drive so aggressively and SO FAST. I hope to never have to drive there again.
From Oklahoma, everyone here hates when you see a Texas plate on the back, hell is about to break loose
As a Texan, I'm sorry for that, but have to admit, makes me proud. (BE scared Oklahoma!)😎
That’s why as a Texan I love visiting you Okies. Cuz you know what’s coming and you still take it up the tailpipe so nicely, lol😂😂😂😂 thx!
From New Mexico, once I see that Texas plate I know I'm about to see something I've never seen before on the road 😭
to be fair, some Oklahoma drivers (lookin at you Tulsa) aren't much better
Am I crazy or are there a lot more Texas plates lately? And also, everyone is running red lights more with no fks given? Not blaming Texans for that. But I got my license in Texas, moved back to Oklahoma and was the worst driver I knew for awhile. Now I am not and that ain't right
This is painfully accurate to Florida. 😂
that's what i was just gonna say LOL. some of those retired old people in the rich cities need to have their licenses taken away like they are actually so dangerous to themselves and others lol
@@fossilfightersfanforever7243 bro no fr holy shit
My dad is a scary driver as is
You know it's BAD when that man is gripping his fuckin seat when his mom, my grandma, is taking turns like a racer (my dad is an ex-racer) LMFAO
Not really, at least not when I was in Central Florida a couple of years ago.
To be fair we get to deal with the shitty drivers from every other State here alongside the average Florida driver with a suspended license.
@@MatthewTheWandererAs someone who has lived in central Florida their entire life, yes it is.
As a Texan, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate.
ghe absolute comedic timing of a car driving behind you when you said "i sure hope no one's behind me!"
“Thank god I almost risked the lives of 7 other people!”
LMAO got me rolling to the lost city of Atlantis
And almost split my car in half by driving into the divider at top speed XD
Texan here! You forgot “ooooh 58th dui of the hour! Better stop my car completely and watch this play out!”
Indeed. I drive home from work late. Sometimes I think I'm the only sober person on the road.
People here in New England have the AUDACITY to complain about Massachusetts and New York drivers. They would simply evaporate into stress clouds if they went anywhere near Texas
“I sure hope nobody’s behind me😃” she sounded like mrs puff lmfao i can’t 🤣
i thought this was just normal driving until i finally moved😭😭
PREACH
All of these things are WAY too true, but I’m surprised you didn’t mention running red lights 😂
Tx Traffic Lights
Green = go
Yellow = go faster
Red = we suggest you stop, but if the light was yellow at some point or it's night time and you think no one will catch your license plate, FLOOR IT!
That Impala has perfect comedic timing 🤣🤣
My teacher died from these kinds of Texan drivers. We have a memorial shirt and we get a day of for his birthday every year. He was the kindest teacher I’ve ever known
Ran away ten years ago. Dismayed to hear that Texas still exists. May God have mercy on your souls.
I hope you're doing well.
As a 17 year old in Texas this is why I’m terrified to get my license
As a Texan, there’s so many damn kids driving without a license and getting themselves in debt, or getting killed.
As a Texan, this is dead accurate 💀 💯
As a fellow Texan, this is accurate. The only thing I would add is: "there's 0.01 inches of precipitation today...why do I hear boss music?"
Time for everyone in their AWD SUV’s and trucks to panic like it’s snow
I drove somewhere while there was heavy rain, saw multiple cars that had hydroplaned into barricades.
THANK YOU for this🙏🏼🙏🏼 I moved to Texas about a year ago and I have never related more to a video in my life. I literally make these exact complaints to my husband daily💀😂
"The light turned green 0.001 seconds ago and this person in front of me isn't going anywhere.. I better honk my horn in case they didn't notice"
Not too much honking in Houston.
Lots of armed people.
the nighttime drivers with the high beams actually drive me insane, it happens so often 💀
What a coincidence that in the backing up part a car passed by just as you said “I hope no ones behind me”
In texas, if your going the speed limit on the high way, your going too slow
The more i learn about texas, the more it scares me…
As a Texan, can confirm 😫 in Houston, every exit on 610, i10, or 59 is like that episode of family guy where Peter is like “how much signal do I need to use to move over 6 lanes? I’ll use none! Good luck everybody!”😂
Me and my brother first got hit the other day by someone hitting a car in front of it then jumping the barrier: that’s Texas for you.
Yeah, as a born-and-raised Houstonian, this is borderline true.
i am SO sorry. when i visited, i was nearly rear ended no less than twenty times a da
@@DUELISTKlNGDOM
Were you... driving the speed limit? On the freeway?
As a Texan… this is so accurate lol. Drove out of Texas for my first time last year to Florida and was AMAZED at how easy it was in other states, people would get out of the fast lane if you were coming and going faster, there weren’t near as many lunatics driving irresponsibly, it seems like everyone else was so respectful?! Baffling lol.
I always crack up at the signs in Texas that say “drive friendly, the Texas way”
This is too true. Moved out of state and can't understand these people on the road letting me merge without trying to force me off the road.